What We Had

Chapter one: Before

Huey Freeman wasn't one to love.

Really, he wasn't one to feel emotion.

But that all changed when he met Jazmine Dubois.

They met when they were ten, on a hilltop that overlooked Woodcrest. He had just moved there from Chicago, and had found that hill while exploring the neighborhood. He escaped the screaming match his brother and grandfather were having about moving to Woodcrest, or as his brother referred to it: Whitecrest.

She was there before he ever got there, sitting on a branch, swinging her light-skinned legs back and forth. She didn't see him at first.

She looked down from her perch and saw him, and smiled, "Hello! I'm Jazmine, who are you? "

"Huey, "Huey scoffed, sitting down. Jazmine giggled, "I like your name. "She then glanced at his hair, "Your hair! It looks like mine! "She exclaimed. Huey rolled his eyes, "Possibly because you're half black, since you do look mostly white, "

And from then on, they were friends.

They did everything together, it seemed. Huey was always there to correct Jazmine, and Jazmine was always there to make him smile. They went through crazy misadventures together, and as time went on, they became closer and closer.

Jazmine came to know the unfeeling Huey, the retired domestic terrorist Huey, the warrior Huey. And eventually, she fell in love with him.

But Huey was a hard nut to crack, and it would be years until Jazmine finally won him over.

Huey knew that being with Jazmine was wrong, since he vowed to not fall in love. But being with her was so right, and he just couldn't help but fall in love with her. Huey couldn't help but falling in love with sweet, caring Jazmine. She was there since he got there, and Huey fell in love with her the moment they met, in all honesty.

Huey and Jazmine dated for a long time, sharing as many memories as they could together. Jazmine was Huey's first kiss. Huey was Jazmine's first kiss. But sadly, as eight grade turned into ninth, and as ninth turned into tenth, Huey's love began to thin out.

By the end of eleventh grade, Huey was sad to say he couldn't feel anything for Jazmine anymore.

But that didn't matter, since Jazmine was about to drop a huge bomb on him.

On the last day of school, Huey had given her a ride home. It was on this day that he was planning on breaking up with her. And sure enough, as he parked in her driveway and she unbuckled her seatbelt, he said the words that shattered her heart.

"Jazmine, I want to break up, "

And Jazmine, although her heart was broken, didn't say anything. Instead, she opened the car door and stepped out. She gave him a sad smile.

"Okay, "She said.

And Huey didn't understand anything, he didn't understand why she just said okay, and why she didn't fight him. The last thing he saw of her was her running into her house, and she didn't look back. He drove home dazed that day, confused as to why Jazmine didn't burst into tears at the scene, why she didn't scream at him to reconsider, anything.

It wasn't until the next day that he learned from her best friend, Cindy, that she was pregnant. And of course, Cindy threw a huge fit, screaming at him how stupid he was and how he'd broken Jazmine's heart, possibly forever. She also warned him that if he so much as dared try anything funny, she'd have his head on at stake. But Huey needed to know why she kept it from him the day before, why she didn't tell him before he broke up with her.

And when he tried to talk to her, Jazmine only said, "But you don't love me, and you don't love the baby. "And Huey understood what she meant, "But Jazmine, I do love this baby, and I'm not gonna leave you to take care of this baby alone. "

That was the end of junior year.